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The English language is used throughout the world, however when you have conference call attendees that consider English their second language and live in places such as China and Poland there are some factors you might want to consider in order for all the participants to fully grasp your comments:
Americans are known as fast talkers. Slow down your speech so the "English as a second language" folks won't get frustrated or misunderstand your agenda.
Don't sprinkle your speech with metaphors or jargon. International attendees might be puzzled by your comments. If you say "Cat out of the bag," they may find it difficult to understand why you put a cat in a bag.
At appropriate times, ask the international audience members if they understand your comments and if they have any questions.
Sometimes it might be appropriate to hire an interpreter to assist you during the event.
Be careful with using humor in your speech. You may end up saying something offensive to English as a second language participants or saying something that makes you seem ridiculous and they loose respect for you.
Be on time. In some countries being just a few minutes late is an insult.
Your etiquette may have to be adjusted when working with an international audience.
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If you think you can avoid work by calling your boss and complaining of a flu or cold; those days might soon be over. You won't have the opportunity to go shopping because your boss might suddenly throw together a conference call concerning a new client or perhaps to have a brainstorming session and your attendance from home is required.
You can probably remember at least a few occasions when a co-worker walked into your office, coughing and wiping his nose and looking miserable. You were terrified of acquiring the horrible germs. You tried to avoid him in a polite way but a few days later you were lying in bed feeling miserable. The sick employees can now stay home and attend meetings with their fellow employees with conference calls. You can touch the file cabinet without worrying about nasty germs.
Those who live in a heavy snow area and find no joy in the snow removal process at least have the benefit of skipping work a few days during the winter season due to hazardous road conditions. Teleconferencing will put an end to the mini break-from work. Snow and the flu are no longer excuses to avoid meetings.
The dollar is losing value in overseas markets. A main effect of this is increasing expenses for business travelers going overseas. Not only has the average ticket price risen due to the dropping dollar, but add in the growing fuel surcharge tax applied by airlines on top of that and you're in for a double whammy.
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"The signs are ominous. The euro is kissing 1.5, the yen is below 108 and a low for the last several years and the pound is persisting above 2. The Fed"s broadest measure of the dollar (the 37-country trade- weighted BROAD index) is close to its historical low of 84, reached in Oct 1978, and July 1995. The news gets bleaker still - oil is at $100 a barrel and commodity producers are planning to change their century-old practice of pricing in dollars."
So, with the dollar at historical lows, overseas travel is an increasingly less attractive proposition for businesses to consider. With this in mind, savvy managers weigh all the options that they have available as they squeeze profit dollars to their bottom lines. Teleconferencing, web conferencing with application sharing, video conferencing, and instant messaging are becoming an accepted alternative to everyday overseas business travel in this growing global marketplace. Although not every business trip can be replaced by teleconferencing, many aspects – such as initial planning meetings, or updates -- can fill in, or even surpass "going there".
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Webinars have become trendy these days. To entice viewers to sign up as well as watch the entire webinar you have to offer something that when the viewer ponders the question "What's in it for me?" His answer will be "plenty." If your invitation to the webinar has the fingerprints of an aggressive copywriter all over it you're going to decrease the number of attendees.
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It has been estimated that less than 10% of people who participate in a webinar are prepared to sign on the dotted line. Don't focus your seminar on your specific products or services. Don't instruct your sales team to contact the audience immediately after the conclusion of the webinar.
Offer a presentation filled with interesting and unique information that will establish your company as an exceptional source of information. This will create a rapport and a trust with potential clients. The delighted attendees will actually be promoting your webinar and your company to other potential customers.
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Crumpled pieces of paper, some pastries and assortment of beverages along with exhausted and bored people are typically found at a company brainstorming session. With the arrival of conference call, brainstorming participants are now often sprinkled about the country. One advantage of an audio only conference is the timid participants won't be intimidated to stifle themselves by sneers or scowls by their confident cohorts. Here are six tips that can make a teleconference brainstorming session worthwhile:
Attending a boardroom meeting requires certain etiquette. You wouldn't shove somebody's paperwork off the table to make room for your sales report. Conference calls also necessitate etiquette. Here are nine valuable conference call etiquette suggestions:
Etiquette and conference calls go together.
Due to robust bandwidth and technological improvements in high definition video and large screens, an applicant's facial expressions during a video teleconferencing job interview with a lawyer can eliminate him from contention for a prized job at a prominent law firm. A person's facial expressions during a web or video teleconference meeting may convince a lawyer he's guilty of a misdeed and he could be slapped with a life changing lawsuit. Lawyers are constantly monitoring facial expressions and body language; seeking information that people are not volunteering and defining their personality. With the upgrades in technology some lawyers have been convinced they will finally be able to notice every little facial movement during a web conference. People will also be life size on the big screen.
Motorola and Cisco utilized the high quality image technology in video teleconference meetings to interview and select their legal team for a Supreme Court Argument. Those who winced during the interview while being peppered with difficult questions probably wished they were using older technology.
With the impressive improvements in sound quality and clarity of the picture, the majority of lawyers might become enthusiastic about video teleconferencing for depositions. Law offices will be able to substantially reduce their travel costs and shrink their carbon output. Video teleconferencing may soon become a significant factor in the legal profession.
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Should you limit the number of participants in your conference call? That depends on the purpose of the conference call. Perhaps you have never considered putting a limit on the number of participants in a teleconference because it seems like you would want as many participants as possible but then again you may want to consider a participant limit to be more effective.
If the sole purpose of the teleconference is to announce something and give listeners information that you really want them to know (and tell others), then you should allow any and everyone to participate. When you set up a teleconference as a way of publicizing new products and services, you may or may not want to limit the number of participants. On one hand, the more people you expose to your company and products, the better. On the other hand, you have to know that listeners will not feel special or singled-out.
Conference calls that are set up as a dialogue might benefit from a limited number of participants. Publicizing this limit will may make the truly interested sign up quickly. If you want time for the speakers and participants to take an in-depth look at a topic, then a limit will give them the opportunity to do just that. A moderator will still be needed, but that person probably won't have to do as much as they would if you had a large number of people involved.
We found an interesting educational site today. It mainly caters to governments and technology, but it is a clearinghouse for top-notch audio archives of niche-related teleconferences from 2007 and 2008. You can visit the Lorman Education Services site for the depth of selection and pricing.
What I found highly interesting was that the archived teleconferences were available for purchase some with price tags as high as several hundred dollars and available to buy as MP3 download or burned to a CD and mailed to you.
When you have a teleconference, don't consider it a one time event. Take some time to archive it back on your website like Lorman has done, offer it free to prospects, or even offer it for sale on your website. You may find a brisk business in your "after-event" media that may surprise you.
Even if you don't want to sell access to your previous teleconferences, an online archive that can be downloaded to portable media players or to computers will allow others to preview the quality of your teleconference events potentially raising attendance at your next teleconference event. Think about it the opportunities for your teleconference marketing are endless!
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Beer related postcards from before the 2nd World War, a historical Dreher share and a few international novelties were the main interests for exhibitors and visitors at the Hungarian Beer Trophy Collecting Club's recent meeting.
Exhibitors from Hungary, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Poland and Serbia were present at the Hungarian Beer Trophy Collecting Club's meeting and the 82 exhibitors presented many beer-related paraphernalia and rare items in connection with beer culture.
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Adam Jajtner (Port Washington, Ill./Port Washington H.S.) finished second in the 1,000 freestyle with a time of 10:26.52, matching the Crusaders' top finish on the day. Jajtner also finished third for the Brown and Gold in the 500 free with a time of 4:59.38.
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Present and Historic Physical Appearance
As built in 1921, Bowdoin is two-masted auxiliary schooner 88 feet long, with a 20.2-foot beam, and a 9.4-foot depth of hold. The vessel is registered at 66 tons gross and 15 tons net and displaces 210 tons.[1] The vessel is ballasted with 21 tons of iron and concrete for additional stability. The schooner was built almost entirely of white oak; she is framed with double sawn frames spaced 24 inches on centers with long and short arm floor timbers passing over the keel. Staunchly built, Bowdoin is planked with 2 3/4-inch thick oak fastened with locust treenails. Over the outer planking another layer of 1 1/2-inch greenheart sheathing protects the bow from ice.[2] Built to be tough and manueverable, Bowdoin was designed with a spoon bow, reinforced with a steel beak piece, to ride up on pack ice and crush it with her weight.[3] The hull form is similar to the "knockabout" type of hull, with "easy entrance, sharp bilges to elude the grip of the ice, and wide quarters to shunt drift ice away from the propeller."[4]
Bowdoin, while designed by a naval architect, was built to parameters expressed by her original owner, Adm. Donald B. MacMillan, based on his years of Arctic experience:
The ship's ceiling is hard pine and Douglas fir, 2-3/4-inches thick above and 1-3/4 inches thick below the turn of the bilge. The upper strakes of ceiling form the sheer clamps, with the top edge about an inch higher than the top of the shelf so that the deck beams lock over them. The deck is 2-3/4-inch white pine laid square fore and aft. The top futtock continues through the deck to form the rail stanchions, and are capped with a 2-1/2- inch oak rail.[6]
Bowdoin was built with a two-masted, baldheaded schooner rig. The baldheaded design, with no topsails, and the lack of a bowsprit reduces the danger of taking in or making sail in icy waters. A smaller crew is also required for handling sail on a baldheaded rig. This rig is also found on bankers and other fishing craft of the period that frequented North Atlantic waters. Bowdoin carries four sails; a jib and forestaysail forward of the foremast, a foresail, and a mainsail. With a jumbo staysail and flying job she carries 2,900 square feet of canvas.[7] The foremast carries an "ice bucket" or lookout, a common feature of vessels that sail in icy waters and a visually striking identifying feature of the schooner. All standing rigging is wire rope.
The schooner carries an auxiliary engine that drives a single screw, which is protected by a skeg that runs from keel to rudder foot. Admiral MacMillan felt that when "navigating in such dangerous waters a ship should have the double margin of safety by being well equipped with both sails and power, for rapidly whirling propeller blades in contact with ice are easily bent and stripped, and shafts broken."[8] The original engine, a 60-horsepower Fairbanks Morse, capable of burning crude oil, kerosene, and even seal oil if necessary, was replaced in the 1970s. The engine now installed in Bowdoin is a 190-h.p. Cummings diesel.
Poor maintenance of the vessel in the 1960s led to restoration work in the early 1970s. The decks and houses were partially renewed in kind, a new foremast was handcut and shaved from spruce, the engine was replaced, and a new generator and wiring system was installed for a 60-cycle, 110-volt power system. In 1978, the mainmast was replaced with a new Douglas fir stick.[9]
A major restoration of the vessel was undertaken in 1980-1984 under the supervision of Jim Stevens, who owns the yard where Bowdoin was built. The ballast was removed and replaced, wasted frames from stem to stern rebuilt, a new stem, horn timber, and keelson added, planks replaced, and a new deck laid.[10] The work restored Bowdoin's sagging lines, giving her the saucy sheer that distinguishes the hull, and carefully adhered to Admiral MacMillan's original choice of timber and the shipwright's methods of construction when she was built in 1921.
Bowdoin is painted white, as she was throughout her career. The deck is arranged as it was when she was sailing Arctic waters. She retains her original rig, including the ice barrel on the foremast. The deck is broken by a slight rise abaft the foremast that marks the beginning of the forecastle deck; the remainder of the deck is flush. Skylights are arranged on the centerline commencing aft of the windlass. The windlass is a Hyde Windlass, electrically driven but also capable of being worked by the original pump-brake arrangement. Near the windlass are the two steel catheads, set into the deck and passing over the bulwarks. The ship carries two 500-lb. anchors and 90 fathoms of studlink chain that "add an impressive ground tackle...."[11] Two low deckhouses and the masts take up little space, leaving much of the deck clear. The steering gear and wheel are aft, with a detachable binnacle mounted between the wheel and main deckhouse. The ship has two pumps; now electrically operated, they are also capable of hand pumping. Each is an Edson's Patented Diaphragm Pump No. 3. The ship's brass bell is mounted on the mainmast. It is inscribed "The Bowdoin from Whittier School, Merrimac, Mass."
Below deck, Bowdoin was built with four major compartments. These begin with the forecastle, with galley, pantry, and berths for 14 crewmembers. The mess table, with hinged sides, is set forward of the foremast. The lockers for the berths in the forecastle serve as the benches. The forecastle ceiling planking is overlaid with tongue-and-groove siding, a feature found in Gloucestermen and other North Atlantic vessels. The original galley stove has been removed; in its place an Aga coal-burning stove, based on a 1920s pattern, was installed in May 1989. A ladder at the after end of the forecastle leads to the deck; a small skylight and hatch above the mess table also provides access. On the port side of the forecastle's after end is a head and the pantry. A watertight bulkhead separates the forecastle for the forepeak and chain locker forward and another midships berthing compartment aft. This space holds 9 berths and the ice chest. A watertight bulkhead separates this compartment from the engineroom, which is reached through a hatch atop the main deckhouse or through a hatch in the forward bulkhead in the main cabin.
The engineroom contains the engine, batteries, generator, pump lines, and the electrical panel, as well as the modern compressor for the Buell air horn. The after cabin, used by Admiral MacMillan, holds two double berths, a head, and chart table. Here the modern navigational equipment, including radar, depth finder, and the ship's radio are kept. The bulkheads are lined with scenes from Bowdoin's Arctic voyages. A hatch in the after bulkhead leads to the lazarette, used for storage. A ladder on the bulkhead provides access to the deck and the helm.
The ship is maintained in excellent condition. All replacement and repairs have employed in-kind materials and workmanship. Retaining integrity of workmanship, materials, association, feeling, and setting, Bowdoin strongly retains her identity and a strong sense of association with Admiral Donald B. MacMillan, as befits a vessel built to her owner's specification to serve as the stage for much of his life's work.
1. Annual List of Merchant Vessels of the United States (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1931)
2. Peter H. Spectre, "The Bowdoin Project," WoodenBoat, Issue No. 47 (July-August 1982), p. 37.
3. Arthur E. Spiess, "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination Form, Schooner Bowdoin...." (August 1979) Section 7, p. 1. Hereafter cited as Spiess, "Schooner Bowdoin."
4. Donald B. MacMillan, "Notes for the Arctic Cruiser," as cited in Spectre, "The Bowdoin Project," pp. 33-34.
5. Ibid.
6. Spectre, "The Bowdoin Project," p. 37.
7. Spiess, "Schooner Bowdoin."
8. MacMillan, "Notes for the Arctic Cruiser," p. 34.
9. Spiess, Op.cit.
10. Spectre, "The Bowdoin Project," p. 36.
11. Renny Stackpole, "The Saga of the Arctic Schooner Bowdoin," Sea History, Summer 1986, p. 24.
Statement of Significance
Bowdoin is architecturally significant; her design, construction, and outfitting reflect the conditions she met in the Arctic. In her career Bowdoin logged more than 200,000 miles, while 300 crewmembers gathered information on Arctic ornithology, biology, anthropology, geology, meteorology, and oceanography, resulting in scores of scientific papers, articles (many in National Geographic), and books. Much of the information and knowledge of the Arctic, Labrador, and Greenland that exists to date was gathered aboard Bowdoin. During the Second World War, Bowdoin and MacMillan were commissioned by the U.S. Navy to serve on the important Greenland Patrol, assisting in the defense of Greenland and survey for air bases to support the Army's task of establishing an air link to ferry aircraft to Great Britain. Continuing her Arctic career after the war, Bowdoin sailed north until 1954, when the 80-year-old MacMillan "retired." In 1959 he sailed her south to commence a new career as a museum vessel.
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The exploration of the Arctic challenged the initiative and imagination of Europe and America for more than a century. The first forays into the frozen interior of the north searched for the Northwest Passage; later exploration pushed for the North Pole itself. The annals of polar exploration are replete with tales of hardship and disaster--the search for two ships' crews and the scientific complement from Sir John Franklin's ill-fated Arctic expedition occupied the attention of the English speaking world for three decades. At first a largely British venture, exploration of the Arctic interior later occupied the attention of Scandinavian explorers and adventurers, and, beginning in 1874, the United States.
Three Americans made invaluable contributions and rank among the greatest Arctic explorers of the 20th century--Robert Edwin Peary, Richard E. Byrd, and Donald B. MacMillan. Peary made his first trip to the interior of Greenland in 1886 and capped his career with his famous North Pole expedition of 1908-1909. Departing from New York on July 6, 1908, Peary and Matthew Henson reached the Pole on April 6, 1909. The epic achievement was made possible largely through the efforts of many, not the least of whom was Peary's Chief Assistant, 35-year-old Donald B. MacMillan, whose frozen feet left him 100 miles short of the expedition's final goal.
Donald Baxter MacMillan, son of a Cape Cod mariner, was born in Provincetown, Massachusetts, on November 10, 1874. Reared on tales of the sea, and an avid reader of history and fiction about Arctic exploration, young MacMillan left the Cape when his father was lost in a storm in 1885. Growing up in Freeport, Maine, he entered Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, in 1894, graduating four years later with a degree in Geology. MacMillan settled down to a teaching career. While teaching at the Worcester Academy, MacMillan supervised a summer training camp on Casco Bay in Maine. In the summer of 1905, he rescued nine persons from drowning. The publicity that followed brought MacMillan to the attention of Robert Peary, a summer resident of Casco Bay, who wrote the young hero to offer his congratulations. MacMillan responded with an offer to join Peary on his Arctic journeys.
When the Peary North Pole expedition sailed in 1908, MacMillan went along as Peary's chief assistant; "he was placed in charge of making tidal observations, preparing equipment, and organizing the Eskimos in search of food."[1] MacMillan returned to the Arctic on his own in 1910 and again in 1911-1912 to conduct anthropological research among Greenland's Eskimos while completing his MA at Bowdoin College. His work attracted the attention of the American Museum of Natural History, the National Geographic Society, and the University of Illinois, which organized the Crocker Land expedition in 1913 with MacMillan playing a prominent role in survey work and carving a niche for himself in Arctic annals:
Returning from the Crocker Land Expedition, MacMillan enlisted as a lieutenant in the United States Navy, where he spent the war years engaged in experimental aviation at Hampton Roads.[3] In 1918, while still in the Navy, MacMillan was granted a Doctor of Science degree by Bowdoin College. After the war MacMillan continued his graduate education, this time at Harvard University.
In 1920 MacMillan returned to the Arctic, working with an expedition conducting enthnographic research among Indians and Eskimos living on Hudson Bay's west coast. His experience in the Arctic and a strong desire to continue his work led MacMillan to seek funds to build an Arctic exploration vessel of his own. Small, sturdy, and built to MacMillan's specifications, the 88-foot schooner Bowdoin, named after his alma mater, was launched in 1921 and thereafter served as the base for MacMillan's explorations. The schooner's maiden voyage of 1921-1922 was to the shores of Baffin Island, where Bowdoin spent the winter iced in and banked with snow while the crew conducted geomagnetic experiments for the Carnegie Institution. In 1923-1924, Bowdoin, under the sponsorship of the National Geographic Society, sailed for North Greenland, where she froze in for a 330-day stay while the expedition gathered specimens, filmed wildlife with motion picture cameras, and gathered ethnographic information on the Eskimo.[4] The first short-wave transmissions from the Arctic were broadcast from Bowdoin on this voyage.[5]
MacMillan made trips north every year from 1921 to 1938; from 1924 on, these were financed by private funds and with considerable institutional support. In 1935, MacMillan married Miriam Norton Look, who soon joined her husband on his Arctic journeys. An author and lecturer, Mrs. MacMillan played an important role in documenting MacMillan and Bowdoin's achievements and later played a strong role in seeing to Bowdoin's restoration. The advent of war ended Bowdoin's trips temporarily. MacMillan offered his schooner's services along with his own, and in May 1941 the vessel was purchased by the United States Navy. Commissioned on June 16, 1941, USS Bowdoin (IX-50), with recently commissioned Lt. Cmdr. Donald B. MacMillan in command, again sailed for Greenland as a member of the Greenland Patrol. While the Battle of the Atlantic raged, the need for bases in Greenland to provide air support for beleaguered convoys and to ferry needed aircraft to Britain brought a number of Coast Guard and Navy vessels to Greenland to survey the largely uncharted coastline. [7] After 27 months of highly successful duty, Bowdoin was placed on reduced commission in October 1943 while MacMillan reported for duty in the Navy hydrographic office. On December 16, 1943, Bowdoin was decommissioned. Stricken from the Navy list in May 1944, the schooner was sold in January 1945. Purchased by friends of MacMillan's, the battered schooner was refitted once again for Arctic exploration.
MacMillan established the MacMillan Moravian School at Nain in Northern Labrador in 1927 to feed, clothe and educate Eskimo children, and after the war he returned to his yearly supverisory and supply voyages. The Eskimo, who called him Nagalek, or "leader," came to greatly admire MacMillan. In 1929 Bowdoin carried the lumber, desks, blackboards, books, radio, blankets, dishes, food, and sleeping bags to start the school. He provided an electric lighting system for the village and school, brought two organs, one for the school and the other for the village church, and another year brought 20,000 false teeth and a dentists's chair.[8]
A unique feature of his expeditions, particularly after the war, was that he never took an experienced sailor with him. As Miriam MacMillan explained in 1951:
One of MacMillan's "boys," Rutherford Platt, first shipped on Bowdoin in 1947 as a middle-aged botanist. Years later he wrote that "he treated each inexperienced hand as a responsible, trusted seaman...in his quiet manner and with few words, he taught his philosophy of life. We learned about courage, the practical matter-of-fact kind that MacMillan had made the keystone of his life. Usually courage is thought to be resoluteness or boldness. Mac's brand was simply the knowledge that he was prepared for any emergency."[10]
Between 1921 and 1954 Bowdoin, with MacMillan at the helm, sailed more than 200,000 miles, making 24 trips beyond the Arctic Circle, the last when he was 80. Talented and dedicated, MacMillan sailed north, "boldly into the ice pack, cruising uncharted waters merely, as he says, "to learn something."[11] MacMillan was honored with an honorary Rear Admiral's commission from Congress, with numerous awards and medals from various societies and organizations, and, in 1953, with the Hubbard Medal, the highest honor that can be bestowed by the National Geographic Society. Society President Gilbert Grosvenor, in presenting the award, noted "I can find in history no other explorer...whose active devotion to solving the geographic secrets of the Arctic has continued for so long."[12] Admiral Richard E. Byrd, also present, remarked that the Arctic, once an unknown land and a barrier, was no longer so; "The man...who has shown us most about the truth of that area...is Commander MacMillan."[13] MacMillan made his last voyage north that year, returning in 1954 to retire.
In 1959, Admiral MacMillan sailed Bowdoin to Mystic, Connecticut, where he turned the schooner over to Mystic Seaport Museum for display. Unfortunately, the vessel was not maintained as she should have been, and Bowdoin deteriorated. Taken off display, stripped of her gear, and her rig taken down, the laid-up schooner was covered with plastic. In 1967, at MacMillan's urging, the Schooner Bowdoin Association, Inc. was formed by friends of the admiral's, including former crew members and others interested in saving the ship. Mystic Seaport relinquished the schooner to the Association, which leased her to Capt. Jim Sharp of Camden, Maine. Sharp restored the schooner to operating condition and sailed her to Provincetown, Massachusetts, in 1969 on a sentimental journey to MacMillan's home, where the admiral, in his 90s, saw Bowdoin sail again one last time.[14] Donald MacMillan died in 1970.
Jim Sharp had restored what he could on Bowdoin for $25,000, using her as a wharfside museum in Camden and sailing her on charters. In the mid-1970s, though, Coast Guard requirements for passenger carrying, which would have called for rebuilding the schooner and destroying her historic character, forced Sharp to return Bowdoin to the Schooner Bowdoin Association. Used for sail training and leased by the Association to various groups, Bowdoin has persevered since then. A major restoration effort at the Maine Maritime Museum between 1980-1984 brought the schooner back to excellent condition. The work was supervised by Jim Stevens, owner of the Goudy-Stevens Yard in East Boothbay, formerly Hodgdon Brothers, who first Bowdoin in 1921. The restored schooner sailed in OpSail `86 in New York harbor in the parade of ships that celebrated the Statue of Liberty's restoration. In 1987-1988 she was leased to Outward Bound, Inc., an educational organization, and in 1989 was turned over to the Maine Maritime Academy in Castine on a two-year lease with an option to buy. Negotiations to purchase Bowdoin are now under way. The Maine Maritime Academy has assigned Assistant Professor Andy Chase as Bowdoin's skipper. Chase hopes to expand her cruises to northern voyages, so that within the next five years, Bowdoin might again sail north to the waters that she charted with Donald MacMillan at the helm more than fifty years ago. Admiral MacMillan was the last of the old-time Arctic explorers, and Bowdoin is America's last sailing Arctic exploration vessel.
1. Anna Rothe, ed., Current Biography: Who's News and Why, 1948 (New York: The H.W. Wilson Co., 1948) p. 402. Hereafter cited as Current Biography. Also see Everett S. Allen, Arctic Odyssey: The Life of Rear Admiral Donald B. MacMillan (New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1962). MacMillan's own writing, including Four Years in the Frozen North (1918) also extensively document his career.
2. Ibid.
3. Ibid., pp. 402-403. Also see John Malcolm, "Donald MacMillan`s Bowdoin Sails Again," Down East, April 1977, p. 48.
4. Donald B. MacMillan, "The Bowdoin in North Greenland," National Geographic Magazine, Vol. XLVII, No. 6 (June 1925) pp. 677-722.
5. Ibid., p. 679; also see Current Biography, p. 403.
6. Paul H. Oehser, ed. National Geographic Society Research Reports, 1890-1954 (Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, 1954) p. 205. Also see Current Biography, p. 403; "To Seek the Unknown in the Arctic," National Geographic Magazine, Vol. XLVII, No. 6 (June 1925) pp. 673-675, and "The MacMillan Arctic Expedition Sails," National Geographic Magazine, Vol. XLVIII, No. 2 (August 1925), pp. 225-226, and Richard E. Byrd, "Flying Over the Polar Sea," U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, Vol. LI, No. 8 (1925), pp. 1319-1338.
7. Ship's history file, USS Bowdoin (IX-50), Ships' History Branch, Naval Historical Center, Washington Navy Yard, Washington, D.C. Bowdoin is a member vessel of the Historical Ships Association of North America (HINAS). Also see U.S. Coast Guard, The Coast Guard at War: Greenland Patrol II (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Coast Guard, Historical Section, Public Information Division, July 1945), pp. 34, 36, 38, and 44.
8. Miriam MacMillan, "Far North with `Captain Mac'." National Geographic Magazine, Vol. CI, No. 7, p. 481.
9. Ibid., p. 465.
10. Rutherford Platt, "The Most Unforgettable Character I've Ever Met: Donald B. MacMillan, explorer, scientist, and teacher of courage and beauty to men." Reader's Digest, February 1966 (reprint) p. 2.
11. Rutherford Platt, "A Visit to the Living Ice Age," National Geographic Magazine, Vol. CXI, No. 4 (April 1957) p. 525.
12. "The Society's Hubbard Medal Awarded to Commander MacMillan," National Geographic Magazine, Vol. CII, No. 4 (April 1953) pp. 563-564.
13. Ibid., p. 564.
14. Peter H. Spectre, "The Bowdoin Project," WoodenBoat, pp. 32-33.


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Saturday, February 16, 2008
Sad today
Sad that my baby boy won't be coming home for at least 2 months due to his treatments.
Sad that he won't see the daffodils come up.
Sad that he won't get to play with his sisters for a long, long time.
Sad that he won't sleep be sleeping in his own bed.
Sad that he is going to be feeling very sick by next week.
How long is two months to a 3 year old? Will it seem like home was 2 days ago, or will he forget what it's like? Will he lose hope that he'll ever leave the hospital? Will he stop trusting me?
What a lot to ask such a young boy to go through.
I'm so sad today.
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- JeanMac said...
Gosh, I just wish I had some words to comfort you. I know he will love and trust you! A very difficult thing for you and your family to be going thru.
- February 16, 2008 at 5:46 PM
I'm sad with you and wish that there was something I could do for you and Henry to make it better.
- February 16, 2008 at 6:37 PM
Gee, this is awful for you and for him. He won't stop trusting you, don't fear that. You and your family will continue to be in my prayers.
- February 16, 2008 at 11:11 PM
- The Nurse said...
His home is with "you."
I will be praying you through, standing in the gap for you... and pray for perfect healing for your little man.
- February 17, 2008 at 2:46 AM
- Jen said...
I am so sorry- sometimes no words can help. Know that you have a lot of people praying for your family.
Does your hospital allow "sleepovers"? Sometimes when my daughter was feeling her worst (and even in tricky treatment times) we were able to have my other daughter have a "sleepover" with her, and it helped.
He's not going to stop trusting you, or knowing where his home is...3 year olds seem to have an infinitely malleable sense of time, so it will seem different to him.
- February 17, 2008 at 9:25 AM
- rlbates said...
Wish I could give you a hug, or truly share your sadness (and thereby lessen it). How are your girls doing?
- February 17, 2008 at 9:43 AM
I too wish I could give you a hug.
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